Poll Shows One-Third Ontarians Want Horwath to Resign

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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A recent poll has claimed that more than one third of Ontarians now think that NDP Leader Andrea Horwath should resign in light of her defeat in the recent provincial election. Despite once being the most popular political leader at Queen’s Park, Horwath’s approval ratings have been constantly declining since Premier Kathleen Wynne took office in February 2013.

A new Forum Research poll found that the trend continued after Wynne led the Liberals to a majority victory in the June 12 vote and the NDP remained in third place behind the Progressive Conservatives. According to Forum, 35 per cent Ontarians believe that Horwath should step down as leader, while 43 per cent feel she should stay on and 21 per cent had no opinion. In his remarks, Forum president Lorne Bozinoff stated on Friday that “she’s got a lot of rebuilding to do in terms of her personal image now.”

Commenting on Horwath’s rejection of the minority Liberals’ budget on May 1, Bozinoff alleged that “I really think she did some damage to herself among her own supporters.” He stated that “they got nothing out of it. They don’t have any more seats than they had going into the election and they lost control of everything.” It was added that “she took a real hit with the whole election thing and not supporting the budget. It just didn’t go well and I think she really did alienate some of her own supporters, the progressives.”

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